Company:Morgan Stanley
CTC Offered: 28.83 LPA
Status:Rejected(Got a better offer from another bank)
Qualification: 2023 grad, Top Tier-2 college
Position : Technology Analyst
Location : Mumbai/Banglore
Date of offer : August 2022
I got PPI (pre-placement interview ) Opportunity through Code-To-Give Hackathon organised by Morgan Stanley.
Interview rounds
there were 3 total rounds of interviews for other people and 4 rounds for me as I had PPI .
Interviews were offline and face to face.
Round 1:(Elimination round)-Around 2 pm on day of interview.
Taken by : Person with 11 year experience in Morgan Stanley and a associate.
Difficulty level : Medium
Duration of interview : 1 hr 30 minutes.
Senior interviewer gave his intro and asked about mine.We talked about the project I did in Code-To-Give Hackathon.
OOPS:
-What are all pillers of oops.
-What is inheritance.
-Object slicing behaviour in cpp and java.
And Many More deep and thoughtful follow up questions around OOPS concepts which I dont exactly remember.
OS:
-Virtualisation v/s containerisation
-Deadlock
-Can there be deadlock in threads.
Deep OS theory based questions.
DBMS:
A lengthy query through which interviewer helped a lot.
DSA-total 3 questions.
https://leetcode.com/problems/reverse-linked-list/
https://leetcode.com/problems/binary-tree-maximum-path-sum/
https://leetcode.com/problems/combination-sum-iv/
Both interviewers were very friendly.I was bit afraid for next round as everybody was saying their rounds went excellent and I had bluffed a little during dbms questions.12 out of 25 students were selected for second round.
Round 2:(Elimination round)-6 pm on same day
Taken by : Both interviewers with more than 10 year experience
Difficulty level : Medium
Duration of interview : 2 Hr 20 minutes.
This round was more of a object oriented design round.
Started with my introduction where I mentioned that I worked with MERN Stack,so basic questions around MERN Stack.
Why Mongo/nosql and not sql db in your project?
DIscussion on ACID-BASE properties.
He asked me to design a as much as secure system for user authentication.(Just flow chart/diagrams were enough.).
I mentioned something related to map.So we had deep discussion on hashmaps in almost every aspect.In the end , he asked me to implement it on paper(Just a abstract code.) Considering chaining and then open addressing.
Then he gave me a problem to design the system of elevators in the building with conditions being there can be multiple elevators in the building.This was very interesting question and we designed this system for more than 1 Hr 30 minutes. This interviewer was most friendliest interviewer I ever had and he made me challenge my brain to find innovative and optimised approach for our system.We designed system with priorities assigned to every lift according to the number of requests they had at that time and I tried to optimise them using disc scheduling algorithms in operating systems which interviewers liked very much.
I was sure about this interview that I'll go to next round and I got call for next round around 8:45 pm.
9 out of 12 were selected for next round.
Round 3:HR -9 pm on same day
Taken by : VP in Morgan Stanley
Difficulty : Medium
Duration of interview : 20 minutes
Discussion on work done in internship.
Discussion on hackathons I had participated.
Discussion on competitive programming as I told him about my rankings on cf and codechef.
Then
Most challenging situation you faced during your internship and how did you tackle it?
Justify your pointer(I had little low pointer than others-it's still greater than 8 :( ).
Why Morgan Stanley?
What are your life goals?
and many standard HR questions.
Round 4:HR -9.40 pm on same day
Taken by : Head HR
Difficulty : Medium
Duration of interview : 20 minutes
My life story and some standard HR questions .
Results were declared on next day and 4 students were selected.****
About me :1500++ questions on all platforms.Specialist-codeforces ,5-start codechef.500+ Leetcode.
